Comments on: Exclusive: Samuel L. Jackson & Maggie Cheung Join Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:38:00 +0000

Ugh, whatever.

Maggie Cheung is an incredible actress and if this means she's returning to the silver screen, I'm psyched.

And about the whole "race" thing - no one balked when Brad Pitt played a Greek in "Troy". And so many people rushed to defend Ziyi Zhang when she played a Japanese woman in "Memoirs of a Geisha", but suddenly a Chinese woman playing a Frenchwoman - oh no!

If Cheung can break some barriers for other Asian actresses, I say more power to her.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:57:00 +0000

nice post

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:23:00 +0000

i think they will ajust Madame Mimieux for Maggie Cheung if she really is in the cast as they gotta do for Deuneve or Huppert had any of them been Madame Mimieux.

By: tgeorge2012

tgeorge2012 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:19:00 +0000

i’m just excited to see quentin directing another film… i live for his work.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:25:00 +0000

He did use Julie Dreyfus again, she has another role. Do a search on our blog. I’m too tired to find.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:22:00 +0000

Since Tarantino recycles actors, I’m surprised he didn’t pick Julie Dreyfus, who is French.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:22:00 +0000

Well having read the script, it's not really superficial at all.

The character is supposed to be a older French woman in WWII.

And she's supposed to be posing as the mother or relative (can't remember) of Shosanna who is clearly caucasian and French.

That's why I question it. How will they pull that off?

They won't. They'll have to re-write it.

And how many Chinese woman did you know that were well-off and owned their own cinemas in France during Nazi-occupied WWII?

That's why I question it. Has nothing to do with not liking her or judging her race at all.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:21:00 +0000

She is able to take on that role. That is unquestionable

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:18:00 +0000

Maggie is fantastic. It’s rather superficial to judge her ability to take on the role by her race isn’t it? She’s definitely enthralling, though not in the movie ‘Clean’. She is the Eastern version of Cate Blanchett.

By: lowfi

lowfi — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:41:00 +0000

You mean Clean or Irma Vep? Clean is for Maggie Cheung and by Maggie Cheung:) and the latter is a ironic comedy about film-making.
BTW, she also won Berlin best actress prize for Center Stage (aka Actress, directed by Hong Kong’s Stanley Kwan) in 1992.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:13:00 +0000

Cheung won the Best Actress in Cannes for "Clean"? Wow, I forgot about that.

That's a real case for seeing the film on the big screen cause I saw Assayas' film on DVD and wasn't really that moved. She was good, but not like enthralling.

Movies are always better in the theaters.

By: lowfi

lowfi — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:10:00 +0000

It has been 4+ years since Maggie Cheung win Cannes best actress award for Clean in 2004.
Can’t wait to see her on big screen.